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We're back! Season 4, baby!

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Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.

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There's a thud from underneath the table and the anvil moves and falls to the floor

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and we see Bonwyn run out of Everbane's.

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As we pan back, there's another huge crack as the wood to the door underneath this table splinters.

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Another. And the table above it is thrown to the other side of the room.

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And we see this huge claw reach up and out and drag along the ground,

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these enormous claw marks along the dirt floor.

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Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More,

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he him. Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her.

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But I do want to say, I think I'm in a gang.

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Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.

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The thing that was under the thing is now, it's emerging.

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Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.

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Can't believe he found the actual books.

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And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him.

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Do I recognize this sound at all?

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Bonwyn, we see you running through the streets towards the guard tower.

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I'm going to say Bonwyn not a runner. I'm going to say Bonwyn is walking very briskly,

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like hands. Yep, exactly. We all started doing power walking, hand movements.

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One foot always on the ground? Are we doing an official power walk here?

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I don't think so. But just like trying to be as quick as possible. But realistically,

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Bonwyn's not a runner. But moving at a jaunty pace and I think just focused.

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Maybe scanning to make sure there isn't like, you know, a random small child out in the

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middle of the night where the monster might be. But otherwise just like, got to go get help.

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Got to figure this out. Need more people to solve this problem.

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So it is, you know, based on the fact that you were all running a heist not too long ago,

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the streets are pretty bare. Like at most you see somebody stumbling out of a bar

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or tavern. That's all the people you see. You make it to the city guard station,

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which is on the other side of the river. So you've had to go quite a ways to get there.

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The door bursts open and inside is Dace with his, he heels up on the main desk

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and one other guard who looks like he's just reading a newspaper.

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And the door bursts open and startles Dace. What? What's happening?

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Oh, hey, you. Come on. We got to go. Get all the weapons.

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Whatever weapons you have. Get all your weapons.

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Get all the weapons. Okay. What are we doing?

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Whoever's here. I don't just, we got to go because the thing

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is now it's emerging.

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The thing is emerging. Great. That sounds fun.

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Let's go. Let's go. Hey, Dace grabs his sword and a couple other weapons and yells,

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go sound the alarm. Get down to the military barracks.

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And then follows you quickly out of the station.

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We cut to the stable. Alydin, you've just returned not too long ago and everybody is

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asleep currently. Tali has one eye open as she sees you walk in. She says,

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how did it go? Really good.

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Yeah. Oh, yeah.

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How was the food? So like you went, you went in, you went actually into the tavern and like

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they, they, did you bring any back? Not from the tavern, but I got these from

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city hall. You went to city hall?

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Shh. Sorry. And I show her the inside of my bucket.

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And then also my big pockets and it's just filled with like pastries and you know,

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like the treats up here, like granola bars. I don't know. Whatever's out there for the

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staff to have. That's so amazing. Why did you go to city hall?

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Shh. Sorry. Sorry. I'll bring it down.

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Well, cause if you wake them up, they're going to eat them all right now.

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And I need to, I need to scroll them away.

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Of course. So that we can just parse them out.

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Yeah, absolutely. Listen, I know I tell you a lot of stuff,

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but I don't think I can tell you this, but I do want to say, I think I'm in a gang.

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You're in a gang. Sorry.

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And like, it's pretty cool. I'm like, I'm like one of the, I'm like a grownup.

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Well, I mean, you are the oldest, so that makes sense.

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So here had to happen sometime. Oh, thank you.

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Shh. Eat it quiet and go back to sleep. It's late.

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She lies back down and puts her head on her straw pillow and quietly eating.

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This is very delicious. Thank you very much.

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You're welcome. Where are you squirreling away your supplies?

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There are some empty crates and flour or grain sacks that are around that I use too. Inside

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of the crates, I'll put the unwrapped perishables, I guess, like the muffins and

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things like that. And in the sack, I put in some of the like dried meats and cheeses that

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are packed up in like a cheesecloth. And I kind of put those away in there and then put them on

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top of a crate. Cause you know, you don't leave food on the floor, not feeding mice.

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As you're putting these away, you pause for a moment because you think you hear a sound,

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like a sound of some sort of scratching noise.

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I do a quick scan in the really dim light to see if any of the kids are stirring or waking up and

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they're gonna find out where I'm hiding the food. You look around and anybody you can see from

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your current location, most you see is like somebody turning over and nobody appears to be

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awake. And you pause for a moment and you don't hear the sound again. Go back to doing

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what you were, you know, putting away all your things. And as you go to lay down yourself,

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you hear like this soft distant echoing sound, a bit like a howl mixed with like this guttural

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growl. It sounds like it's coming from the storage room. I slowly roll over

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to tally poker awake. I'm sleeping. No, you're not. Did you hear that? Hear what?

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It was like a growling, like a... You pause for a moment and the sound

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rises above the silence again. And it's a little louder this time. She says, I hear it.

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I hear it. Maybe it's those goblins. Oh, maybe. Okay. Didn't you say they were kind of

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friendly though? Well, I thought so, but I mean, like, I don't know, like, shh, shh, bizarre,

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like murdered a bunch of them and stuff. Like I've seen stuff children should not see.

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Well, it's a good thing you're an adult now. Right? Okay. I think they're good. I think it's

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in the tunnels. They're in the tunnels. We have to leave. You have to wake up the kids

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quietly and I need you to take them out into the street. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Tally's

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scrambling up and like gently stirring everybody awake and they're all delirious and confused

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about what's happening, but trying to usher them away and you hear like this cracking sound from

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down in the cellar. And then far off in the city, you hear the sound of the town bell.

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Fuck it. We're not being quiet kids. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Everybody move.

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Cav, you open the door to your, what did we say? You're in a bit of a hotel.

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It's like a long term rental situation. Yeah. You open the door to your room and

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for auditors and the newly divorced is what it says on the sign outside.

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I mean, that's what it is. It was very, very, very specific clientele. Find the name of this

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place and get a sign made or something. Cause that's, I know you didn't.

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That's the t-shirt you can buy. You open the door to your room and go to set the books that

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you've you and the team has found down on the table and get yourself cleaned up and ready

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for bed so that you can all think about this in the morning. As you're passing over

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to your bed, you have another look at the books and you even reach down perhaps and

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flip them open. Like everything you've been looking for to explain why the money isn't

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adding up appears to be evident in these books. How does that make Cav feel in this

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moment? Like what's going through his mind? Kind of almost disbelief. Like he can't believe

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he found the actual books and it seems like a little too good to be true, but also at

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the same time, he's like, holy shit, like I'm good at my job. Maybe

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you're just riding on that cloud. You, you close the books, you, you may me perhaps even

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tuck them away somewhere safe. Oh yes, I will be hiding them. Perfect. You hide them away

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and you're climbing into bed and as you, as you snuff the candle and put your head down on the

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pillow, you hear a sound that you haven't heard in this city before. It's close to you because

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you're on the noble side of the city. You hear the sound of this large alarm bell that begins

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echoing slow and pace at first, but then it picks up. Okay. I immediately a cab thinks that

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it has to do with the heist. So, cause why wouldn't he? We just stole something very

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important and now all of a sudden the city alarm is going. So some quick thinking,

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he grabs like his messenger bag and puts the books in it because he doesn't trust that they'll

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be safe. Even though he's hidden them, doesn't trust they'll be safe in the room. So he grabs

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that grabs like a coat and just heads out into the kind of the, I guess courtyard of this place

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and sees other people kind of setting up shop there. So goes and talks to some of the

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divorced dads to see what's up. I'm imagining you looking like, like, like a Christmas carol,

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like you were in a white sleeping gown, a sleeping gown. I mean, can for sure would wear a sleeping

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cap. Absolutely. Yeah. You, you walk over to a couple of people who you've seen in passing at

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the continental breakfast some mornings before, and they nod to you as you walk up and they too

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are in their night gowns and are looking around and you see as you walk up to them,

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you see a group of military soldiers like rush past the opening of this,

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this courtyard and off towards the bridge. So what's, what's going on? Oh, I don't know.

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I heard the, I heard the, I was washing a dish and I heard the bell and I came down.

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Yeah. Yeah. I, me too. I was, I was, I was down in my basement suite and I heard,

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I heard the bell when I came out. That's not what you told me.

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Oh, that's not what he told me. Okay. Well, tell him what you told me. Okay. Well, I was,

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I was sleeping and I, and I heard, I was stirred awake by the sound of the bell.

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And then I came out. I wasn't. Yeah. I mean, it was, it was pretty close.

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It was pretty close to what I said. I just wanted to give a little more flavor to the

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story. Anyways, I don't know what's happening. It looks like there's a whole military thing.

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Maybe somebody's being attacked and a couple of them walk out. And one of them walks out to the

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out to the entrance to the courtyard. And as they do a few more soldiers kind of step

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in front of them and bar their access so that they can't leave and they stand back

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and they walk back to you. And I don't, I don't know what's happening.

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Okay. Weird. I guess we'll just sit tight till they let us know.

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I guess so. This is, this is a first.

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Hey friends. We're back. I know it's been so long. It hasn't really been so long.

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We've had those lovely mini-sodes, which if you haven't listened, we highly suggest you go

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this upcoming season. We are so thrilled to be back for season four, which I gotta figure out

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a better way to classify the season so that it makes it easier for people to share. Obviously,

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campaign one, season one and two, campaign two, season three and four, and however far

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into the future we go. We are really excited for what we have, what I, I am really excited

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for what I have planned. I'm also very excited to throw those plans out the window as everybody

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else decides what they want to do. You know how games go. That's probably what's going to happen.

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We have a few episodes. We, so two big action sessions that we recorded, this one

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towards the end of the month, and we're going to have surprising adventure, shocking turn of

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Bizarre, you make your way back to the shop after the heist, and you get in and lock up,

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and you're heading upstairs to get ready for bed, and you reach into your pocket as you're

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cleaning up and putting things away, and you hold in your hand the vial that Kinney gave you.

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Based on how tonight's gone, where's Bizard's head in terms of

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needing to use this, or Kinney in general? Bizard feels conflicted. He's, you know,

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he's made a deal with a very dangerous man and was able to resolve the problem,

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technically, without his assistance. But he's at a point of like, okay,

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I don't have to worry about the people I've begun to work with and become friends with.

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I only have to worry about myself and what may happen. But knowing Bizard,

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he's considering, like, could I go back to Kinney and could I say, well, I don't want

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to not follow through on something. So we resolved the issue, but he's very doubtful

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that that would work too. Just feels kind of, like, stuck. He's probably just sitting on his

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bed just, like, staring at it, like, the hell am I gonna do? What have I gotten myself into?

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And he thinks for a second about his mom. He's just like,

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shit. And he pulls out a, you know, a quill ink and a piece of paper and he starts

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just kind of writing his thoughts out. You sit and you write this and you get a

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couple paragraphs in. And you stop for a moment just to collect your thoughts before

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you continue writing. And you hear this, what sounds like an eerie wind begin to permeate through

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your home. Doesn't sound natural. Sounds almost animalistic. And it's coming from

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somewhere far off in the distance as far as you're concerned.

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Do I recognize this sound at all? Can I place it to, like, an animal or some kind of,

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you know, maybe magical creature that I encountered at school?

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Make a nature check.

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Dope. I'm alright at those. That's gonna be an Unnatural 20.

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Ah! You, nothing from school, nothing from any, you know, roving out in the environment around

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Kingstown or any small excursions that you've been out on. But it immediately gives you

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a feeling of being back in the mountain, down in that tunnel, down in that cavern,

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on the adventure that Ignatius brought you out on. Like, you didn't, like,

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almost like you didn't register the sound when you were down there. But now that you're

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hearing it here, it gives this, like, shiver down your spine that it's eerily similar

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to a sound that was present in that cave system.

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Immediately sits upright once that thought comes to him. He says, oh, there's no time for writing

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a letter right now. And he actually takes it and he kind of, like, crumples it up,

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throws it in the bin, says, Mom wouldn't want to hear about that anyway. And then

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gets his clothes back on, like, you know, gets out of his pajamas. And he's like,

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I feel like I might need to be ready for, God forbid those things show up in the city.

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And then you hear the alarm bell from the military barracks begin to ring across the river.

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Well, I can do math, walks downstairs and makes his way into the into the streets and

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where would he go though? Oh, I know where he would go. He would try to go find Alydin

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and the kids. Well, you're going to meet them halfway because Alydin's first thought was,

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I have a key to a place that doesn't have a tunnel that I know. Oh, please. She's gone up

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and down that place. If there was one, she would have found it. But yeah, she's got like

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nine kids in tow and they are running through the street to the magic shop.

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Bonwyn and Dace, you round the corner into the hot block. You immediately see that the

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front of Everbane's has been blown wide open. Like some large creature has torn their way out

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through the door. There's rubble in the street. There's tools and raw ore that's been

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kicked about. And you see huge claw marks that have dug into the road and the pavement

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and even up the side of a building on the other side of the street. Okay,

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I'm going to start like pounding on doors. This is my neighborhood. I know everyone that lives

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here and just shouting, wake up, wake up. You've got to get out of here. You got to get out

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of here. Dace is doing the same and he's doing it as he's walking towards the footsteps.

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He's checking inside of Everbane's first to see if there's anything still in there.

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You knocking on doors see him from a distance. He turns away from Everbane's presumably because

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he doesn't see anything and is making his way over to the wall and see if he can follow

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where the creature went. You see him duck down between two buildings in the direction that the

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footprints are going and he goes out of sight for a moment. What do you do? I think once

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some people start coming out, then I say, wake everyone up. There's something on the loose here

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and I'm pointing at these enormous claw marks that people would presumably be able to see.

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Get to safety, get wherever you need to get and make sure everyone's awake. I'm going to

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run into the shop and grab some fucking crazy weapon that I'm working on because I'm always

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working on one and then I'm going to follow Dace when I know that I have delegated the

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task of waking everybody up in the neighborhood. Yeah several people come out and they get this

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direction and they you know rush back in get a couple essential things, clothes primarily

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and then come back out and are working to clear everyone out of the hot block and as they

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do that work their way back towards the noble side of the river as well as the military

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barracks. Oh no all the poor people are coming across the river to the rich people's side.

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It's a real problem. Yikes. Gross. That's where we leave that group. As you follow Dace,

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you head down this alleyway and you you lose sight of him because you know there's a little

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bit of a distance there but you hear footsteps around a corner and as you poke your head

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around you see him and he sees you and he puts his finger to his lips signaling for you

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to be quiet and as he does so you hear the sound of the bell on the other side of the city.

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You hear this like rattling sound like a if you think like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park like the

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throat rattle from up above where Dace is standing and you see like this shadowy figure

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disappear over the edge. You don't have to make any saving throw on this because it's

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not facing you but you hear this what would be a deafening howl that comes out of whatever this

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creature is. You can feel small stones shaking free from the buildings around you and loud

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crunching noises as you see it leap through the moonlight to another building as it's

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moving towards the sound of the bell. And now that I've seen it or at least the silhouette

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of it is it confirmed to me that it is the thing that we saw in the mineshaft?

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Definitely has the same body type it looks bigger than the one that you saw in that cave.

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For sure because that was like the size of a large dog right?

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I think we said a large dog yeah.

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Okay cool so we just saw the baby maybe.

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Dace looks at you sees that you've got a weapon and he says are you coming with me

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or you helping people out? They're on top of it I'm coming with you.

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Let's go. You head back down these alleyways following it's moving much faster than you are

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but it's leaping from rooftop to rooftop you're losing sight of it but you can still

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hear the sound that it's making as you are chasing it towards the bridge.

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And I think I guess the bell's going now but I'm still yelling as we go

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to try and like rouse as many people as we can.

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We cut back to the courtyard and Kavlaran you're seated with a few others more people

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have come down at this point the two guards are still standing outside the courtyard they

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don't appear to have given any direction or information to anybody who's gone up and asked

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them they've just been told to stay here and they will be safe if they stay here.

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What do you do? I look for somewhere to slip out during some of the chaos.

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Okay make an investigation check please. I can do that.

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See on the ground floor like does he have a little balcony on the other side that he could

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just like step over the gate. Right all right investigation that's a 12.

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The courtyard appears pretty locked down three stories what story is Kavlaran on?

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We'll say second. I guess to Amy's point you would

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have a balcony from your room that does have a fire exit like a ladder that extends down

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in case of emergency. We're very safety conscious here in this medieval town.

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Absolutely on this side of the river.

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Yes there was the big fire in the in the in the rich district.

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That's right. So they've built all the safeguards in.

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Yeah okay head back to my room and scope out this ladder on the balcony and like

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shimmy down and try to get out the back way.

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Yeah you so you get out on the balcony you see a lot of movement down on the street.

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There are some guards but nobody's looking up at you and

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nobody's paying attention to you. You still have bag in tow?

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Absolutely.

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Okay great. You pop the ladder down and make it down to the street.

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You're caught up in a bit of chaos which kind of rushes you along.

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There are a couple guards behind this group that you've been swept up into.

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It appears that they're moving this group down to the military barracks.

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Is that where you want to continue to go?

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Not not my first choice with state secrets in my bag.

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Some light espionage yeah some light treason.

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Yeah I'll make my way I guess toward Everbane's.

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Okay.

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I have a feeling that's where all my crew will be.

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Okay make a stealth check to see how successful you are getting away from

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the guards in the vicinity.

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Stealth roll so that's a 15.

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Okay you go with them for a couple blocks but then find a good position to just sneak

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off into an alleyway. You do so and you wait until this main group passes and a couple guards

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ushering people along behind them and then find a break where you're able to

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make your way back to the bridge.

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So we see Kavlaran weaving through any chaos that's happening of people being ushered out

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and making his way over to the artisan district.

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Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 4 Episode 1

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Starring Amy More as Alydin Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane

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Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave

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Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard and Russ More as your Dungeon Master

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Dialogue Editing by Carla Maxted and Sound Design by Russ More

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But that's it for me right now.

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We'll be back with you hopefully very very soon.

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You have a great week and we'll talk to you soon.

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Say soon once more Russ.

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Soon!

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Bye!

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Let's go, let's go, let's go!

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Everybody move!

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And they do.

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And they do.

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Because I'm a grown up now and they listen to me.

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You're their fearless leader.

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That's right.

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